Start your tour outside the Office de Tourisme de Saint-Malo, the perfect spot to get your bearings and learn about what the city has to offer.
Walk a short distance up to Chaussée du Sillon, a boulevard offering incredible vistas of the sea and the city’s coastline. Enjoy the panoramic views and get a sense of Saint Malo's maritime heritage.
Venture towards Saint Malo Castle, where echoes of corsairs and conquests linger in the sea-salted air. Learn about the history of the castle and its role in defending the city.
Discover Saint Vincent Gate, one of the old city’s gates. Hear about the significance of the ermine symbol that you'll see throughout Saint Malo.
Find out why there are three Saint Thomas gates as you pass through Porte Saint-Thomas. Learn about the different stages of the city's fortifications.
See the birthplace of Chateaubriand, a renowned politician and diplomat. Discover his contributions to French literature and politics.
Walk through Place Vauban, the large square in front of the castle named after the city’s notorious combat engineer. Learn about Vauban's influence on the city’s fortifications.
Pass through Poterne Aux Normands, a historical gateway that offers a glimpse into the city's medieval past.
Visit Bastion de la Reine, a formidable part of Saint Malo’s ramparts. Hear about the strategic importance of this bastion in the city's defense.
Stop by Bidouane Tower and hear the story behind the name of the dancing cat street. Learn about its historical significance and unique name.
Walk along Champs-Vauvert Cavalier, a section of the city’s ramparts that offers stunning views and historical insights.
Immerse yourself in Place du Quebec (Quebec Square) and visit House Quebec. Learn about the connections between Saint Malo and Quebec.
Walk along Les Remparts de Saint-Malo, the city's famous ramparts. Enjoy the views and hear about the surprising history of the city’s defenses.
Spot the statue of Jacques Cartier at the formidable Holland Bastion, a silent guardian of Saint Malo’s maritime heritage. Learn about Cartier’s voyages and his connection to Canada.
See the statue of Jacques Cartier and hear about his role in the exploration of Canada.
Discover Porte Saint Pierre, another historical gate that offers insights into the city's fortifications.
Explore Place du Guet, a charming square that provides a glimpse into the city's past and its strategic importance.
Pass Saint Vincent Cathedral of Saint Malo, where prominent individuals, including Jacques Cartier, are buried. Learn about the cathedral’s history and architectural features.
End your tour at the Big Gate, the final stop on your journey through Saint Malo. Reflect on the city’s rich history and maritime heritage.
It was a great way to start our visit to Saint Malo. No pressure on a start time which you can choose and follow the guide at your own pace. This allowed us to stop/start and take a break or explore an experience in more detail. Very user friendly and happy to recommend !
Loved the opportunity to go at own pace and stop if wanted a break.
This was a great audio tour when we were on a brief trip to Saint Malo for a Tour de France stage. It was flexible and easy to follow and we learned a lot about the town.
The app was super easy to use, extremely informative, and just perfect for us!
A great way to way to learn about the city and enjoy time on the water on a beautiful day. Coffee and tasty biscuits were a nice treat.
An excellent tour, very interesting and the geolocation worked a treat. The history and stories told were fascinating . St Malo is stunning!
Saint Malo is a beautiful walled city with buildings and narrow cobbled streets befitting to its heyday as the hardest city to invade. This reputation is maintained into the 21C as our first two attempts to visit were thwarted by sheer numbers of visitors on a weekend and on Bastille Day. On our third attempt, we made partial success by entering the defensive walls by car, only to find our efforts thwarted. This time it was the lack of signage to disabled parking or even discovery of such rarity within the walls that kept our motor running. We could readily see the irregular cobbled surfaces, the narrow pavements edged by 8 inch granite slabs that are the nightmare to wheelchair and mobility scooter uses. Alas we chose the exit route, paradoxically discovering 3 disability parking spaces by the exit rather than the entrance. I was not surprised to note that none of the 3 vehicles occupying those precious parking spaces displayed any disability enabling entitlement. It is such a shame that such a beautiful city does not flag up a how to visit Saint Malo for those with accessibility issues. Prior to our entry we enquired of disability parking to two local lady gendarme controlling traffic. Their look of mystery said a thousand words. We abandoned our visiting aspirations and took refuge in the nearest Leclerc hyper market. As events happened this second choice for a visit proved more successful yet did not have any authentic historical resonance.
To you have somebody guiding you around, without having to look down at your screen all the time is a very positive integration of computers within the world. There was a pleasure in looking as opposed to following that cannot be underrated when you’re only in town for an afternoon.
This an excellent guide. It uses GPS coordinates to know where you are so that the narrator speaks when you at the specific location pertaining to that bit of narrative. You can pause if you want to take a break and resume when ready. The information provided is excellent and interesting. This is the best audio guide experience I've had thus far. Well done!
It was amazing! Beautiful sites and views. The audio tour does not take you all around the walls/ramparts. But the descriptions and GPS mapping were right on!
The spatial guidence was excellent, so easy to follow and such good company through out the walk. The acutal audio guidence had a tempo that maybe was a bit too high. It would have helped a lot if a French pronounciation of the names and places had been used. Over all thoug a guided tour that I really enjoyed!
I think it is a very good way to get to know the city at your own pace, in my case I had a coffee break and then continued the visit, so that was great, and even if you can do the visit in the 75 minutes I higly recommend to take your time and enjoy the views. I also found the stories and comments about the city very interesting!
From the starting point, stay alert to find the beginning of the route. We missed the first 4 points, but out of 30, we didn't miss anything. Very good explanations, very interesting!
Very user unfriendly app. Very cumbersome process to download. After payment difficult to handle. Why not also in Dutch? I didn't get to finish the guidance
Beautiful walled city.
It is very difficult to make the app work. Reboot 3 times during walk. And very complicated to locate in the streets or ramparts of St Malo. The photos proposed to locate us are very difficult to access depending on the sunshine. We took 3h30 to do the 2h walk. But the comments are very interesting.
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